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Dolores Claiborne
1995
· Movie
· 132 min
B
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1150
- IMDb #1321
- Google retired #54
- Rotten Tomatoes #1159
- Metacritic #1742
- Letterboxd #1253
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1389
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1470
- Metacritic Critics #2289
- Metacritic Audience #961
- Criticker #1082
- Kinopoisk #663
- AlloCiné #989
- Trakt #1388
Every rating
57–98
out of 100
A elderly housekeeper is accused of murdering her wealthy employer on an island in Maine. Her estranged journalist daughter returns to cover the story. The accusation brings back long-buried secrets and forces the two women to confront a dark event from their past involving the death of the woman's abusive husband.
Details
- Director
- Taylor Hackford
- Writer
- Tony Gilroy
- Based on
- Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
- Studio
- Castle Rock Entertainment
- Released
- 24 March 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $13.0M
- Box office
- $46.4M
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Awards
1 win & 8 nominations total
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